By Jeremy Laurance and Colin Brown
The first scientific study of the human cost of the Iraq war suggests that at least 100,000 Iraqis have lost their lives since their country was invaded in March 2003.
More than half of those who died were women and children killed in air strikes, researchers say. Previous estimates have put the Iraqi death toll at around 10,000 - ten times the 1,000 members of the British, American and multi-national forces who have died so far. But the study, (...)
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Revealed: War has cost 100,000 Iraqi lives
30 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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How Rummy’s Failed War Plan Caused the Loss of More Than 1,000 US Soldiers in Iraq
30 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsby Jason Leopold
In October 2002, the New York Times reported that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ordered the military’s regional commanders to rewrite all of their war plans to capitalize on precision weapons, better intelligence and speedier deployment in the event the United States decided to invade Iraq, ignoring concerns from career military officials that American military forces will suffer a huge number of casualties under Rumsfeld’s plan.
Rumsfeld denied, in an Oct. 12, (...) -
Blame game at the U.N.
30 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Revelations about the U.N. Oil for Food Program get uglier and uglier. Designed to allow Iraq to collect revenues to pay for humanitarian supplies such as food and medicine, it appears to have been manipulated by Baghdad to reward friends of the regime and enrich the country’s leadership. The damage has been magnified by allegations of corruption and negligence on the part of the United Nations. There needs to be a complete investigation of what went wrong with the Oil for Food Program, (...)
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Appeasing Israel
30 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Bush and Kerry put Israel first - and ignore the rise of fascism in the ’Promised Land’
by Justin Raimondo
The collapse and seemingly imminent demise of Yasser Arafat once again draws our attention to the plight of the Palestinian people at the hands of their Israeli occupiers: just as the Jewish state keeps an entire people captive in the twin concentration camps of Gaza and the West Bank, so Arafat was himself incarcerated, physically confined to his headquarters in Ramallah. (...) -
100,000 Iraqi civilians dead, says study
30 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentby Sarah Boseley
About 100,000 Iraqi civilians - half of them women and children - have died in Iraq since the invasion, mostly as a result of airstrikes by coalition forces, according to the first reliable study of the death toll from Iraqi and US public health experts.
The study, which was carried out in 33 randomly-chosen neighbourhoods of Iraq representative of the entire population, shows that violence is now the leading cause of death in Iraq. Before the invasion, most people (...) -
Stuck in Guantanamo
29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Murat Kurnaz from Bremen, Germany is imprisoned in Guantanamo. The United States accuses him of being associated with a suicide bomber. The only problem? The suicide bomber is still alive and living as a free man in Germany. Kurnaz, though, remains behind bars.
The military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay holds its hearings at Camp Delta in a run-down barracks building with red carpeting and iron rings embedded in the floor to which the prisoners can be chained like dogs.
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A month of mini ’October surprises’
29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
A flurry of revelations, from Iraq’s missing explosives to the flu vaccine shortage, have touched this year’s presidential race.
By Linda Feldmann | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
WASHINGTON - On the eve of a presidential contest, late-breaking events can have an outsize impact. While nothing has risen to the level of a blockbuster "October surprise" - the term coined from the 1980 race, when Democrats feared Ronald Reagan and his friends were secretly arranging to delay (...) -
Civilian death toll in Iraq exceeds 100,000
29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed in violence since the U.S.-led invasion last year, American public health experts have calculated in a report that estimates there were 100,000 "excess deaths" in 18 months.
The rise in the death rate was mainly due to violence and much of it was caused by U.S. air strikes on towns and cities.
"Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100,000 excess deaths, or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq," said Les Roberts (...) -
U.S. Barred From Forcing Troops to Get Anthrax Shots
29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By Marc Kaufman
The Defense Department must immediately stop inoculating troops with anthrax vaccine, a federal judge ruled yesterday, saying that the Food and Drug Administration acted improperly when it approved the experimental injections for general use.
Concluding that the FDA violated its own rules by approving the vaccine late last year, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan said the mandatory vaccination program — which has inoculated more than 1.2 million troops since 1998 — (...) -
No Exit From Iraq? Neither Bush nor Kerry will get us out
29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
by Justin Raimondo
The tragicomedy of errors currently playing in Iraq took an ominous turn the other day when the ambush of 49 Iraqi National Guards by insurgents was blamed on ... the U.S. And, no, the accuser wasn’t Michael Moore, or Noam Chomsky, or any of the other demonized figures in the Bush-neocon gallery of hate: it was "Prime Minister" Iyad Allawi, our very own puppet, who unilaterally decided to cut his own strings (or, at least, appear to be seen doing so). Allawi told the (...)